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9780143039068

Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780143039068

  • ISBN10:

    0143039067

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-11-30
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), follows the progress of Judy’s former orphanage, now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges hope and a new life.

Author Biography

Jean Webster (1876-û1916) was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster. She was a grandniece of Mark Twain and the author of eight novels, her writing career blossomed amid the suffragist culture of upstate New York and Greenwich Village.

Elaine Showalter is the author of the groundbreaking A Literature of Their Own and editor of Little Women for Penguin Classics.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. vii
Suggestions for Further Readingp. xix
A Note on the Textsp. xxi
Daddy-Long-Legsp. 1
Dear Enemyp. 133
Explanatory Notesp. 349
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